REUTERS
Gazprom signed an agreement of shareholders of the joint project company on Friday, September 4, on construction of the Nord Stream-2 pipeline, RIA Novosti reported with reference to a top manager of one of the signatories.
"We signed a shareholders' agreement," said, Yelena Burmistrova, head of Gazprom export, confirming the news.
Burmistrova named Shell, OMV and E.On among other signatories.
In June of this year, Gazprom, E.On, Shell and OMV signed a memorandum of understanding providing for the joint construction of two lines of Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline with annual capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas from the coast of Russia through the Baltic Sea to the German coast.
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